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The breadth of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal a decade ago brought down 21 lobbyists, government officials and aides. Abramoff served 43 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the government, corruption and defrauding his clients. Abramoff’s former colleague, Kevin A. Ring, thinks it would be hard now to pull off the kind of freewheeling…

Two lawmakers, Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott (Wash.) and Steve Israel (N.Y.), announced their retirements this week, joining a parade of members of their party who will exit the House in 2017. In an interview with the New York Times, Israel indicated that the current campaign finance system, with its never-ending fundraising demands, had an impact…

As they await January 2, 2016 — the day they can legally become lobbyists — former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and his former chief of staff, along with two more of Rogers’ onetime staffers, have found a use for some of the lawmaker’s $1.3 million leftover campaign funds. It doesn’t involve many contributions to other candidates or the…

Former governor Jeb Bush, (R-Fla.), wants more than a flash-freeze for aspiring lobbyists leaving Capitol Hill. On Monday, the former Florida governor called for a six-year ban on lobbying by former members of the House and Senate — three times as long as the current so-called “cooling-off” period for senators, a sixfold increase for House members…

Former members of the 113th Congress have embarked on various new adventures since their defeats, retirements or departures for other reasons: Some are teaching, others are pondering away at think tanks, a couple are embedded in corporate culture, a few are even enjoying their freedom and sleeping a little later every morning. Not surprisingly, though,…

Update: A profile of the biggest supporters of net neutrality is available here. The Federal Communications Commission just approved new rules that allow it to regulate the Internet like a utility, establishing net neutrality. But only for now. The move has some very powerful opponents, starting with the cable and telecom companies — companies that control most…

Seven years after President George W. Bush signed the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act (HLOGA) into law and then-Sen. Barack Obama, (D-Ill.) declared it to be “the most sweeping ethics reform since Watergate,” a joint analysis by the Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Responsive Politics suggests the effort may have misfired. A key…

A new analysis by Remapping Debate and the Center for Responsive Politics shows that 41 high-ranking staffers for new members of Congress came from organizations that have a lobbying presence in Washington.

If President Barack Obama is elected to a second term next month, he’ll have to choose a successor for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who plans on stepping down. Two possible names have been floated in the media. We want you to give us one of them.

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